Eight in ten Millennials listen to Internet radio

So says Larry Rosin, of Edison Research: Last fall, Edison Research debuted “The New Mainstream”, a research project performed on behalf of the Streaming Audio Task Force – a consortium of Pandora, Spotify, and TuneIn. Now, Edison followed up with a new report showing the results of the study among 18-34s:

“The changes happening in media consumption are vastly more pronounced in the younger age groups. Our study of online 18-34s shows that in every location of listening outside of the car, online 18-34s are more likely to listen to online radio (including the streams of AM/FM stations) than radio from a traditional transmitter. Of course, the change in consumption is being driven primarily by the adoption of smart phones.

As shown by other studies – Internet Radio usage does not lead to a wholesale abandonment of ‘traditional’ radio – indeed 89% of 18-34s reported listening to over-the-air radio stations in the week before they were surveyed. The advent of Internet Radio has surely led to some time-shifting from one form to the other, but meaningfully there is little doubt that online delivery has expanded the time people spend with audio.”